Lizzie Lou Arts
Lizzie Lou Arts grew out of a walk...
Long before it had a name, it was already happening in tables dressed with things gathered from outside, in mud and straw shaped by many hands into homes and sculptures, in a children's fire exhibition that burned bright at Arts Ablaze in 2019.
Then came a walk, in 2023, it was 6,371 kilometres across Australia and somewhere along that path, the creative life that had always been running underneath everything found its name and its container.I've come to understand that creativity and wellbeing are the same current running through a life. Not separate streams but the same water. When we make something, when we pay close attention to the world and find a way to express what we see and feel, something in us comes more fully alive.
Art is not a luxury or a talent reserved for the few. It turns up everywhere in the unfurling of a fern, in the drawings scratched onto walls in concentration camps, in the way a child reaches for colour before they reach for words. Each of us carries a story that is more than words, and creativity is how that story finds its shape.
Lizzie Lou Arts is that belief, lived out loud. Beauty, meaning, purpose. A creative life as a whole life.I live off-grid in Running Creek, on Mingenberri country, in Queensland's Scenic Rim.
My studio is wherever I am.
What I am currently working on…
Smoke Signals — an ephemeral community sculpture, 2026Smoke Signals is a community artwork giving visible form to something most people haven't seen but all of us will feel, the proposed Bromelton incinerator. Built from wool, warmth, and many hands in partnership with Keep the Scenic Rim Scenic and the Knitting Nannas, it will rise as a temporary sculpture, speak its piece, and disappear. Ephemeral by design. Like smoke.Currently finalising the design and sourcing a printer.
Also on the bench…
The Long Walk Home — a memoir in progress
Memory blanket — dots, stories, Reclaim the Void
Natural dyes — submitted to the ALEA exhibition
From the Feild
\ Forest Floor & Creatures — the intimate more-than-human world, small things, wildlife, ground level attentionThe Long Walk Home — the walk, the book, country as journeyCountry — place, belonging, ecological witness, philosophical voiceCommunity Health — care for people and place, programs, advocacy as love
Forest Floor & Creatures
